Ben Bailey Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Ben Bailey Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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really really dangerous part of the world in terms of the way the sea behaves but the British fleet was sent off because hey of course we're going to do this you know we'll get down there we'll kick the Spanish in the butts we'll steal all their treasure nip back jobs are good and
Of course, Job is not a good'un.
And what it unfolds appears to be, even though this is all historical fact, you read the book thinking, this is punishment for eating the cattle, you know?
Don't kill the cattle.
And it felt like the perfect setup for watching a movie like this.
I think...
So I would just add imperial hubris because the way that Odysseus behaves doesn't exist in a vacuum.
He is a king.
He's a lesser king because it's Ithaca.
It's not the whole of Greece.
It's a small island.
But he is a king and he has a mini empire of his own.
And when you are a king and you have people following your every decision,
hubris can be a thing that gets hold of you.
In fact, I think hubris is an ancient Greek word now that I say it, if I can remember my Mark Forsyth well enough.
And so I was well prepped for this film and I was worried.
I was saying to the redactor, sometimes I think of Nolan a little bit like a football manager called Pep Guardiola, who is widely accepted as possibly the greatest football manager ever.
operating today one of the best in the world but sometimes with really really big games he sort of overthinks it over intellectualizes it and the game becomes a bit of a mess and hard to follow I'm thinking of Tenet here I think I genuinely think The Odyssey is the most accessible Christopher Nolan film that he's made
I cannot wait to watch it again.
I watched it with Robbie Collin in the IMAX and he was watching for the second time.
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